As Russia and U.S. butt heads in Ukraine, astronaut Steven Swanson hitches ride on Soyuz. He’s supposed to blast off Tuesday with two Russian cosmonauts but, if Putin says no more rides for Americans, there will be no way for astronauts to reach the International Space Station because another one of Obama’s brilliant decisions was ending the space shuttle program… which sucks for Swanson but sucks even more for astronaut Rick Mastracchio who’s already up there and won’t have a ride home.
